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Swiss Covid Certificate – Technical documentation of the swiss Covid certificate

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Re: Swiss Covid Certificate – Technical documentation of the swiss Covid certificate

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Post by zuas »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #2

Seems complex for something that probably never going to see any real use.

It's supposed to go live next Monday / by the end of the month. We'll see.

Let's just say im very skeptical when it comes to IT-projects of the Swiss government. They regularly waste 100s of millions of CHF on stuff that simply doesn't work.

https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releas...

Re: Swiss Covid Certificate – Technical documentation of the swiss Covid certificate

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Post by xiphias2 »

nnx wrote: post #4

Absolutely terrible for privacy to use a client-server architecture for this. Why can't this be purely client-validated like passport chips?

,,COVID Certificate is the official app for storing and presenting COVID certificates issued in Switzerland. The certificates are kept and checked locally on the user's phone.''

It seems like the server is needed for getting / revoking certificates, not for the verification.

Re: Swiss Covid Certificate – Technical documentation of the swiss Covid certificate

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Post by tonfa »

nnx wrote: post #4

Absolutely terrible for privacy to use a client-server architecture for this. Why can't this be purely client-validated like passport chips?

> Why can't this be purely client-validated like passport chips?

From the diagram this looks similar.

The client-server is to fetch the certs and revocations, and handle the signing infrastructure.

Re: Swiss Covid Certificate – Technical documentation of the swiss Covid certificate

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Post by imrehg »

The inoculation certificate validity is currently 180 days since the last jab (looking at the slide deck in the repo). That seems super short. Will people really need 2 courses of jabs each year (that is 4 jabs with most current vaccines)?

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Post by khuey »

imrehg wrote: post #7

The inoculation certificate validity is currently 180 days since the last jab (looking at the slide deck in the repo). That seems super short. Will people really need 2 courses of jabs each year (that is 4 jabs with most current vaccines)?

Nobody knows for sure at this point but the prospects for long-term vaccine-derived immunity look really good so probably not.
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